Altar



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B. Y. GHEVALIER.

ALTAR.

Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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. .UNITED STATES EDWARD YATES ()HEVALIER, OF HANNIBAL,MISSOURI.

ALTAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,498, dated Septemberl, 1885.

Application filed May 4. 1:85.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Y. CHEVALIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hannibal, in the county of Marion and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Altars, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in construction of altars which are used in secret and other societies, which will be hereinafter more particularly described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure I is a perspective view of an altar constructed according to my invention. Fig. II is a plan view of the bottom part, the top having been removed. Fig. III is an elevation of one side; and Fig. IV is a vertical section, enlarged, showing the construction of the bottom part on ac cc of Fig. II.

A is the frame of the base, which consists of four sills framed together at the corners in the ordinary manner with tenon and mortise, as shown at a a in Fig. IV. On top of this frame A is securely laid a platform, B, of ordinary boards, I; b, which may be square-jointed ortongued and grooved. At a convenient dis tance within the outer edges of the platform 13 another frame, (J, is formed by mortise-andtenon joints at the corners of four sill-pieces, G. On this frame G a platform, D, of boards is secured; or a single wide board may be used, which is to be properly battened to prevent its warping and splitting. On top of this platform D, at the four corners, are pedestals or plinths E, of any form or design which may be selected for the order or style of architecture to be used in the upper part.

In the drawings, E E represent the plinths orpedestals used inthis case. On these pliuths or pedestals are the columns F F, which may be of any order or style of architecture. Above the columns F Fis erected the entablature G, which is to support the tablet H. In the perspective, Fig. I, the tablet H rests directly upon the columns. In Fig. III the entablature Gis formed into an arch on each side between t-he capitals of the columns. I do not confine the invention to any particular finish above the columns, or to any particular style or order of architecture, as it may be varied (No model.)

to suit the taste or the appropriatenessof the use for which a particular altar may be designed.

On top of the'frame-work of the entablature G, which may be formed of four rails properly joined together at the corners by tenou and mortise, there is secured the tablet H,

which may be of any desired thickness and finish. on the sides and its top surface. This tablet is to be secured to the frame-work as follows: Immediately over the axis of each column are holes bored in the tablet H and properly countersunk on top. Corresponding with these, holes are bored through the framework of the entablaturei. e., through the tenons and 1nortisesand also through the columns F and plinths E and the platform 13. In these continued holes iron screw-rods hh are placed, and the heads h h are inserted in the countersunk holes in the tablet H. Over these countersunk heads of the bolts are inserted ornamental pieces Mk, of any design, to conceal the heads of the bolts. The nuts 2' i for screwing up are put under the boards I) b of the platform 13, and the whole structure is then secured together by means of the four screw-bolts. Thus the fourscrew-bolts securely hold all the frames and the top tablet, entablature, and bottom frames of the altar together.

Between the columns, andon each of the four sides, there is an ornamental fence, I, which may be of any desired pattern, having in the middle, as represented in the figures, an arched projection, I, above the general line of the top, the design of which is for the purpose of being ornamented with emblems and symbols suitable to the rite in which the altar is to be used; also, various parts of the altar are similarly employed, as will now be described.

Upon the interior platform, D, within the columns, the floor may have delineated upon it some prominent emblem or symbol, as in Fig. II there is a cross. Between the columns, and under the arches or entablature or tablet, are cords or chains, to which can be suspended emblems and symbols of the rite where the altar is used, as shown in Figs. I and III.

From the four corners of the base-frame are projections J J, substantially framed and secured to the base A. On top of these projections are tablets j j. On the upper faces of these tablets are also delineated emblems and symbols; also, wherever convenient, on the entablature each side is ornamented suitably with emblems, and the plinths of the columns are likewise thus ornamented.

Between the projecting pieces J J, and resting upon the outer parts of the platforms B, are cushions K K, fitted neatly thereon and curved on the outer edge, as shown in Figs. I and II.

By this construction of an altar a neat and convenient and highly ornamental piece of furniture for the room can be made so that when the structure is completed at the factory it can be taken to pieces, all its parts closely packed together, and shipped to its destination without danger of injury, and then easily put together in the room by any person sim- EDWARD YATES OHEVALIER.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN URE, STEPHEN TrIoRNE. 

